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Rugby and Gaelic football player:
Bill
captained
Queens College Cork
in Munster Senior Rugby Cup
in 1895.
Irish Rugby International Player in 1895.
He
played Gaelic football
for
Dr Crokes
club, Killarney,
in 1890s.
Also played Gaelic football for Co.Kerry.
He played for
Dr Crokes in the final of the
Kerry Senior Football Championship
for 1900 (final 2 Dec 1900),
when they lost.
Dr Crokes won the
Kerry Senior Football Championship
the following year
(the year 1901, final played Aug 1902).
This was their first County title.
Dr. Bill appears in
winning photo,
but he is no longer playing, but now team doctor / trainer.
He was team doctor for Kerry's first
All-Ireland
winning team,
year 1903,
final played 12 November 1905.

Dr. Bill
qualified in Scotland as
L.R.C.P.Ed.
and L.R.C.S.Ed.
and L.F.P.S.G.
(Licentiate of the
Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow).
He was a
doctor in
Killarney, Co.Kerry.
For almost 60 years he served as Medical Officer of Killarney No.2 District
(which included the local District Hospital).
He was one of the
Coroners for Co.Kerry.
He covered East Co.Kerry.
Listed in 1901 census as living with his uncle
Michael O'Sullivan
in Killarney.
He is "General Practitioner"
and "Coroner for County Kerry".
He was living Killarney at mar.

He
mar 1904 to Norrie O'Mara
[born 3rd Mar 1880].
All children born Killarney.
He
lived Inch House, New St, Killarney.
There by 1908.
Had
private practice at Inch House.
Listed in
[Thom's, 1910]
as doctor in Killarney,
and one of the Coroners for Co.Kerry.
See entry
in
[Census, 1911],
he is listed as "General Practitioner",
living house number 59 in New Street (Lower), Killarney
(Inch House).
They have 2 nurses, a governess, and 3 other servants.
The house has 13 rooms,
14 windows in front of house.
He had a house in Dooks (Dooaghs),
Glenbeigh, nr Killorglin, Co.Kerry
(see map).

Inch House was later the home of Dr. Bill O'Sullivan.
There by 1908.
Family lived upstairs.
Doctor's office downstairs.
Dr. Bill died at Inch House in 1953.
Inch House was demolished around 1996-1997.
The site is now Dunnes Stores.

Not to be confused with Inch House, Ballinvoher par, Dingle peninsula
[Houses of Kerry].